Plants & Equipment

Saudi Arabian base oil refiner Luberef and national oil company Saudi Aramco are evaluating the feasibility of an API Group III base oil manufacturing ...

Aster Chemicals and Energy will fork out U.S.$155 million to upgrade its refinery on Pulau Bukom in Singapore, the company said Dec. 9.  

Oronite Opens Depot in Dubai

December 3, 2025

Chevron Oronite has opened a new storage facility in the Jebel Ali Free Zone in Dubai, partnering with RSA-Talke, a logistics operator, to expand its ...

Ukrainian drones struck Rosneft’s Novokuybyshevsk oil refinery on the night of Oct. 18–19, according to a statement from the General Staff of the ...

Bashneft’s refinery in Ufa, Russia, was attacked by Ukrainian drones Saturday, causing undetermined damage to another Russian refinery that produces ...

The just-completed expansion of ExxonMobil’s base oil plant on Singapore’s Jurong Island makes it the largest such facility in the world – by fa ...

ExxonMobil has completed the most recent expansion of its API Group II base oil plant on Singapore’s Jurong Island.

Fuchs has partnered with KCF Technologies to help manufacturers reduce downtime and operating costs by addressing lubrication-related failures in real ...

An acquisition company made the winning U.S.$10 billion bid for the beleaguered ex-Venezuelan refiner Citgo.

Labor organizations and social activists staged a protest outside a lubricant company where three workers were killed and one was injured during maint ...

An Operations Excellence Practitioner’s Perspective  Annual medical checkups are a common part of life these days but were viewed differentl ...

Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd. announced recently that it will expand both of its finished lubricant blending plants in order to accommodate the compa ...

ExxonMobil announced Wednesday that it will upgrade the base oil plant at its Baytown, Texas, refinery, giving it capacity to make 8,000 barrels per d ...

A series of explosions ripped through Smitty’s Supply, a lubricant blender and distributor based in Roseland, Louisiana, starting a fire that sent f ...

Two of Saudi Aramco’s base oil refiners posted their H1 results.

Zambia has signed a $1.1 billion agreement with China’s Fujian Xiang Xin to build a major oil refinery in Ndola, with a dedicated lubricants blendin ...

Vietnam’s Tay Sai Gon Group completed a blending plant in Long An province last month with capacity of 100 million liters per year.

Petrobras plans to invest $6.07 billion in increasing refining and petrochemicals capacity.

HD Hyundai Shell Base Oil, a joint venture between HD Hyundai Oilbank and Shell, plans to expand its Daesan facility to include a new API Group II bas ...